Your Holiday Look Ahead!
Let’s unwrap the festive season and see what’s coming to you
The holiday season is creeping upon us! Lighting up stages across San Francisco with festive favorites and new productions, from timeless classics to family favorites, audiences can look forward to a season filled with music, laughter, and magic. Here's what's taking center stage this holiday season.
San Francisco Ballet - The Nutcracker
War Memorial Opera House
December 13 - 21
San Francisco Ballet's sparkling production is an essential Holiday experience!
Enchanting Bay Area audiences since 1944, San Francisco Ballet's Nutcracker is the country's oldest full-length production.
As befitting such an institution, it's a dazzling extravaganza full of glittering costumes, sets, and incredible performances from a world-class cast of dancers. Wrapped up in Tchaikovsky's iconic score performed by a live orchestra, it makes for an unmissable spectacle that fills you with festive joy from the first step. If you're looking for the ultimate holiday outing, you can't go wrong with this one!
Candlelight: Christmas Carols and Strings
St Ignatius Church
December 19
All your favorite Christmas carols by candlelight!
The holidays are on the way and what's more Christmassy than the carols? If you're in the mood for a festive sing-a-long, our friends at fever have you covered with this wonderful yuletide concert, featuring all your favorite carols played by a talented string quartet in an evocative candlelit venue. So Come All Ye Faithful and enjoy a not-so-Silent Night of Joy To The World!
Jinkx and Dela Holiday Show
Golden Gate Theatre
December 19
The Drag Race favorites reunite to spread Christmas Cheer!
The Queens of Christmas return for 2025 with another holiday spectacular for everyone, naughty or nice! Making the yuletide gay since 2018, this glorious collaboration from two of RuPaul's DragRace's most glittering alumni is the perfect tonic for the hysteria of the holiday season, with boozy holiday cheer infused with good old razzle-dazzle song and dance numbers, copious amounts of eggnog and classic carols with a cheeky drag twist. If you're Nutcracker-phobic then this double act has your alternative holiday entertainment sorted. Jinkx will spice things up and Dela will cover them in sugar!
A John Waters Christmas
Great American Music Hall
November 30
Putting the 'X' in Xmas, John Waters style
John Waters loves Christmas, and he wants you to know. The legendary cult-filmmaker takes to the stage with his traditional one-man monologue, extolling the virtues of everyone's favorite holiday, from offering advice on Christmas films and music to asking the important questions you've always wanted answered by the people's pervert, such as 'Is Santa erotic?'
